Incumbent presidents' parties typically lose House seats in midterms, which can block their legislative agendas.

The gambit has triggered a national redistricting war, as governors from both major parties threaten to initiate similar efforts in other states.

California Democrats are taking up their proposed constitutional amendment to temporarily redraw their congressional maps, hours after Republicans in the Texas House passed new maps of their own.

After Texas moved forward on a new Trump-backed congressional map this week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom responded, "It's on," moving forward on his own redistricting plan that favors Democrats.

Former President Barack Obama waded in to support California Democrats tit-for-tat efforts to more extremely gerrymander the ...

The national redistricting battle enters its next phase Thursday as California Democrats are scheduled to pass a new congressional map that creates five winnable seats for their party, a direct ...

After protests, a two-week quorum break and out-of-state pressure, the Texas House passed a new map for the state's congressional districts on Wednesday. The bill now proceeds to the Texas Senate, ...

This story was originally published by. California Republicans have a simple rebuttal when Democrats blame Texas for starting the congressional gerrymandering arms race: two wrongs don’t make a right.

The Texas House of Representatives has passed legislation dictating new congressional lines in an effort to add Republicans in Congress.

Texas House has approved drawing a new electoral map favouring Republicans which has fuelled a very alarming Donald Trump theory.

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Texas Republicans are triumphant after a success in their efforts to redraw the state’s congressional maps, but California Democrats are set to make their move.